Uncle Bala

Our country has gifted this world with many gems of people. It's important and encouraging for all those striving to come up in life.

The "Great Lakes Institute of Management" is located in Saidapet in comely Chennai. It is believed that Great Lakes students get jobs in big companies with even bigger salaries the minute they finish their management course at this institute. On an average it has been estimated that this year 100% of the graduating students got offer letters with Rs.9.3 lakhs of salary. To the envy of other management schools due to their quality of educations that's offered in a short amount of time this school has grown well in the past 3 years.


The founder of this institute Bala V Balachandran was a student of statistics in the University of Annamalai in 1960s.After that he went to Chicago, USA where he joined very soon as a professor in the famous Kellogg School of Management. Today he does consultancy work for many big companies including US Air Force. He is one of an American–Indian who makes us all proud. Many businessmen have tremendous faith in his words. Students call him as 'Uncle Bala'.

He says "I didn't start this institute for money because in the end I will have only two names,” he says philosophically. “One is dead and the other is body."

PS – Chinese language is a compulsory subject for all the students at this institute. Could you see Uncle Bala's vision here?

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http://www.glakes.org